"rejects — Luther rejected transubstantiation while affirming real presence. The bread remains bread; Christ's body is present "in, with, and under" the bread."

"rejects — Luther initially accepted it but later Lutheranism rejected it as unscriptural. Mary is honored but not exempted from the human condition."

"rejects — Neither affirmed nor found in Scripture. Lutheranism teaches nothing about Mary's fate after death beyond what Scripture reveals."

• Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsweak
  Same-sex marriage authorization implies moral affirmation.
• Infant Baptismstandard
  Westminster XXVIII; Book of Concord SC IV; Council of Trent Session VII; Wesleyan Articles Art. XVII
• Permissibility of divorce and remarriageweak
  Matthew 19:9 (adultery ground); 1 Corinthians 7:15 (abandonment ground). Practice varies.
• Real Presencestandard
  Trent; Book of Concord (sacramental union); Chrysostom liturgy; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII
• Women in pastoral / ordained officeweak
  Various denominational actions (TEC 1976, ELCA 1970s, PC(USA) 1956, AG 1935, CofE 1994 priests / 2014 bishops, etc.)

• Assumption of Maryweak
  Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
• Immaculate Conceptionstandard
  Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
• Marriage as one man and one womanweak
  PC(USA) 2015; ELCA 2009; TEC 2015; UMC 2024. Same-sex marriage authorized in polity.
• Transubstantiationstandard
  Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.

• Apostolic Successionweak
  Lutheran and Methodist bodies retain 'succession of doctrine' language without the tactile chain.
• Believer's Baptismweak
  Paedobaptist bodies practice adult baptism on credible profession where infant baptism was omitted, but do not consider it normative.
• Pacifism vs. just-warweak
  Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
• Perpetual Virginity of Maryweak
  Historically held by Luther, Calvin, Zwingli; retained as pious opinion (not binding) by confessional Lutherans and traditional Anglicans.
• Theotokosweak
  Confessionally valid title (Ephesus is a received council) but not used devotionally; retained in liturgy where liturgy is retained.